Nighttime potty trips?

My LO is 6 months old and we' ve been doing this for about a month and she's so good at it sometimes, If I'm on my A game. She only uses 2 diapers at night one in the middle and one that's wet when we wake up however since she holds it I know it's in there lol and I was wondering if I should take her to the bathroom in the middle of the night or if I should let her go in her diaper and change her. So is it better to let a baby sleep or stay dry? Also we cloth diaper.

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You could try and see what happens. If she only slightly wakes up, pees, and goes back to sleep, AND you don't mind doing it, then go for it! That's how some babies respond.

In our experience, unfortunately, LO associated using the potty/peeing with morning wake-up, and so he goes into full wake-up mode (and will stay up for 2-3 hours) if I try to potty him at night. So we don't.

The potty bowl sounds promising. Somehow this morning I woke up at 3:20 and so did LO and bc it was a full moon I thought it was sunrise, bc we don't have a clock in our room so I went into morning mood and took her to the bathroom bright lights and all then when we walked by a clock I was like what?! Lol it didn't take her too long to get back to sleep but that defiantly was to much awake for 3 am.

She does get squirmy sometimes but I didn't make the connection to her needing to potty. I tried a bedside potty chair the other night but I just put her on when she was fast asleep and she did nothing but sleep lol so I'll need to just be more proactive at night it sounds like.

I could never get DD to go in the potty at night. She is a very sound sleeper. Even at 21 months, I still can't get her to pee in the pot once she is asleep. I'd love suggestions on how to get over that, because I'm anxious to move her into underwear full time.

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